I ask because having tried both Gnewsense 2 and BLAG 70000 in the last few days I'm amazed at what runs on BLAG.

On Gnewsense for instance if I try glxgears in a terminal I get errors back. BLAG however works with no problems? I thought there were very few 3D drivers that were free? I'm using an ATI 9000 PRO.So, I downloaded Secondlife and was running around in the virtual world before you could say 'proprietary'.

Is it something I've done? Mine is just a vanilla install with updates. I did apt-get update/apt-get upgrade. Oh I also installed mozilla plugins by mistake as I thought I needed them for Gnash.

By the way Gnash works on Youtube with BLAG! Well done. Couldn't get it to work on Gnewsense.

Ok, I've rebooted using the new kernel and interestingly glxgears still works but MUCH slower... In libre I get 300fps Previously 1600fps. But does that mean that my card has support for 3D?

I should have said *accelerated* 3d, no? :)

I'm soon to be buying a new desktop. If I choose a videocard from http://www.free3d.org/ Will this guarantee reasonable performance in 3D in BLAG? The above site suggests that the ATI Radeon X850 using free software drivers will achieve 6520 fps...

Or is there something else removed in the linux-libre kernel that affects video performance?

I'm soon to be buying a new desktop. If I choose a videocard from http://www.free3d.org/ Will this guarantee reasonable performance in 3D in BLAG? The above site suggests that the ATI Radeon X850 using free software drivers will achieve 6520 fps...

Or is there something else removed in the linux-libre kernel that affects video performance?

Yes, there are things removed from the linux-libre kernel which could affect that. Your safest bet for free 3D is Intel video--those all all built onto the motherboard though.

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